There's Hope Yet against Secret Money in Politics

Signed today by California's Governor Jerry Brown, AB 249, a landmark bill against secret money in politics authored by Assembly Speaker pro Tem Kevin Mullin and supported by more than 100,000 others!

"It took us nearly seven years," said the president of the California Clean Money Campaign, "but working together, our grassroots and coalition campaign just put into law by far the strongest disclosure law in the nation. No other law requires the top three funders of political ads to be shown clearly and prominently on a solid black background on TV ads. No other law requires true funders to be disclosed on ads even if they try to hide behind layers of front groups. It's the first law anywhere to make it illegal to purposefully deceive voters about who pays for political ads."

A step forward but politicians will always take any and every dollar that they can get for their campaigns. If anything comes up later they just claim "they never knew" or "had no idea." Politics has very little ethics.